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The world trade center was built
The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the sep. 11th attack. The original worlds trade center was a complex buliding with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in newyork. -
apollo 13 suffers huge set back 1970
Apollo 13 was launched on 11 of April 1970 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. During the second stage boost the center engine of the S-2 stage cut off about 132 seconds early, causing the remaining four engines to burn about 34 seconds longer than it should have. -
Kent state shooting
The kent state shooting also known as May 4th massacre occurred at kent stat university in the U.S city of kent Ohio. The shooting involved shooting of unarmed studends by the nantainal guard. on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent. Some of the students that were shot had been protesting. -
US south veitnam invade laos
Japan's Kyodo News Service reported from Saigon yesterday that between 4000 and 5000 South Vietnamese troops parachuted into Southern Laos early Monday. Kyodo said that U.S. planes and helicopters were assisting in the operation, but that no American ground combat troops were involved.
Meanwhile, the United States Command in South Vietnam has imposed a news blackout on the operations, and U.S. officials are refusing to confirm or deny that the sweep into Laos has occurred. -
DDD
Direct dialing distence or also know as DDD or direct dial is a telecommunications term for a network-provided service featuring which a call origiter , without operator assistance, call any other user outside the local calling area. -
VCR 1971-1972
The VCR format was introduced in 1972, just after the Sony_U-matic format in 1971. Although at first glance the two might appear to have been competing formats, they were aimed at very different markets. U-matic was introduced as a professional television production format, whilst VCR was targeted particularly at educational but also domestic users. Unlike some other early formats such as Cartrivision the VCR format does record a high-quality video signal without resorting to Skip field. -
Abortion
Under Massachusetts law, contraceptives could only be distributed by registered doctors or pharmacists and the contraceptives could only be distributed to married couples. Sheriff Eisenstadt brought criminal charges against William Baird with breaking this law when he gave a contraceptive to a woman after a lecture on birth control and over population at Boston University. In 1972, the US Supreme Court determined in Eisenstadt v. Baird that the Massachusetts law was unconstitutional based on the -
Sears tower
In 1886, Richard Warren Sears started to sell gold-filled pocket watches as his second job with the railroad in North redwood, Minnesota. No one imagined, at the time, that his R. W. Watch Company would become the largest shops in the world. When the idea of building the Sears Tower was considered, in the late 1960s, the Sears Roebuck and Company had a income of almost $450 million each year. Sears had businesses with thirteen other countries in the world, Sears also had 355,000 employees workin -
Vietnam
the Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from november 1 1955] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries.
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Patty hearts kidnapped
On February 4, 1974, the 19-year-old Hearst was kidnapped from the Berkeley, California apartment she shared with her fiancé Steven Weed by a left-wing urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. When the attempt to swap Hearst for jailed SLA members failed, the SLA demanded that the captive's family distribute $70 worth of food to every needy Californian – an operation that would cost an estimated $400 million. In response, Hearst's father arranged the immediate donation of $6 -
Speed limit 55
the National Maximum Speed Law (NMSL) in the United States was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per hour (89 km/h). It was drafted in response to oil price spikes and supply disruptions during the 1973 oil crisis. -
Nixon resings
Richard Milhous Nixon January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994 was the 37th President of the UnitedStates, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
President Ford assassination attempts (2)
July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Elector -
Microsoft made
Bill Gates and Paul Allen childhood friends with a passion in computer programming, were seeking to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer. Allen noticed that they could program a basic interpreter for the device; after a call from Gates claiming to have a working interpreter, MITS requested a demonstration. Since they didn't actually have one. -
apple inc
Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips)—less than what is today considered a complete personal computer The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66 ($2,723 in 2012 dollars, adjusted for inflati -
red dye
After an incident in 1954 involving FD&C the FDA retested food colors. In 1960 the FDA was given jurisdiction over color additives, limiting the amounts that could be added to foods and requiring producers of food color to ensure safety and proper labeling of colors -
Legionnaire’s disease
The Committee was set up in urgent response to public concern over an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease, which occurred suddenly at the District General Hospital (SDGH) in Stafford, in April 1985. The outbreak affected 101 people, of whom 28 died. -
Starwars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy's final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released. The three films were also released at three-year intervals, with the final. -
new york blackout
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not affected were in southern Queens, and neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting Company System.Unlike other blackouts that affected the region, mainly the Northeast blackout of 1965 and the Northeast blackout of 2003, the 1977 blackout was localized to New York City. -
elvis found dead
Elvis died on 1977 on august 16th he was found died at his home in metheise -
atlantic city allwos gamble
In an effort at revitalizing the city, New Jersey voters in 1976 approved casino gambling for Atlantic City; this came after a 1974 referendum on legalized gambling failed to pass. Immediately after the legislation passed, the owners of the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel began converting it into the Resorts International. It was the first legal casino in the eastern United States when it opened on May 26, 1978. -
john paull ll became a pope
John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. Some say[who?] he was instrumental in ending communist party control of his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. Conversely, he denounced the excesses of capitalism. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. -
jonestown massacre
Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. -
three mile island accident
The accident began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve (PORV) in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as human-computer interaction design oversights -
sony makes walkman
In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee. In 1986 Sony finally agreed to pay royalties to Pavel, but only for sales in Germany, and only for a few models, and refused to acknowledge him as the inventor of the device. -
ESPN firts broadcast
SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 6, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major sporting events, along with commentary, previews and feature stories
